About 100 marchers demand transparency after Kohen Wiley was shot dead in a car outside a Walmart

About 100 people gathered on Friday morning outside of the Walmart in rural Senatobia, Mississippi, to protest about the killing of a one-year-old boy by police earlier this month.

Walmart itself was closed, its doors barricaded. During a protest at the Walmart earlier in the week, officers deployed teargas on those gathered to force the crowds to disperse.

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Over the past two decades, Taylor Swift has changed the music industry, and how we think about girlhood. From songs like Fifteen about first love and heartbreak to introspective tracks like Mirrorball from Folklore, Swift has chronicled the emotional lives of young women in a way few artists have. Her music says that the experiences of girlhood deserve to be immortalized. But as fans celebrate her upcoming marriage and the 20th anniversary of her debut album, Carter Sherman and the Guardian's deputy music editor, Laura Snapes, ask: is she leaving that stage of her life behind, and if so, what's in store for her next era?

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• Pochettino has been in charge of the US since late 2024

• Former Spurs and PSG boss likely to have club interest

Mauricio Pochettino has been offered a contract extension that would keep him in charge of the US men’s national team through the 2030 World Cup, multiple sources familiar with the offer said on Friday. Sources spoke with the Guardian on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the matter.

Pochettino and the US Soccer Federation have been discussing a new deal for about three months, said one source. Pochettino, along with US Soccer CEO JT Batson, have spoken publicly about the negotiations as recently as late May, around the time that Pochettino was reported to have had talks with Serie A side Milan. Pochettino was coy when pressed about Milan’s interest, but Batson spoke openly about it, saying that the federation had received many inquiries in regards to Pochettino’s services.

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• Tuchel now left with limited regular full-back options

• Chelsea defender sustained hamstring setback in March

Reece James will miss England’s next two World Cup matches at least as he fights to recover from a hamstring injury. The right-back, who has a history of hamstring problems, reported tightness after the team’s 0-0 draw against Ghana in Boston on Tuesday.

The Chelsea captain did not train with the squad in Kansas City on Friday before their flight to New York, where they will play Panama in their final group phase game on Saturday. He will sit that one out and also the last-32 tie which could follow.

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NEW YORK (ANP) - De Amerikaanse aandelenbeurzen zijn vrijdag met kleine koersdalingen het weekend ingegaan. Apple stond bij de winnaars op Wall Street na een dag eerder nog flink te zijn gedaald door het nieuws dat het techconcern de prijzen van onder meer MacBooks en iPads verhoogt vanwege de sterk gestegen kosten voor geheugenchips. Chipbedrijf Micron Technology deed juist een stap terug na de sterke stijging een dag eerder.

Apple klom meer dan 2 procent. Op donderdag daalde het aandeel nog meer dan 6 procent. Micron Technology leverde 6,7 procent in. Een dag eerder sprong het aandeel nog bijna 16 procent omhoog dankzij goed ontvangen kwartaalcijfers en vooruitzichten van het bedrijf.

De Dow-Jonesindex sloot 0,1 procent lager op 51.876,11 punten. De brede S&P 500 zakte een fractie tot 7354,02 punten. De technologiebeurs Nasdaq daalde 0,2 procent op 25.297,61 punten. Het was de vijfde verliesdag op rij voor de Nasdaq.

Ook andere chipbedrijven verloren na de flinke winsten in de voorgaande handelssessie. Het sentiment in de chipsector werd mede geraakt door het bericht dat AI-bedrijf OpenAI zijn beursgang mogelijk kan uitstellen tot volgend jaar na de tegenvallende prestaties van SpaceX sinds de beursgang eerder deze maand. Qualcomm, Lam Research, Applied Materials en SanDisk verloren tot ruim 10 procent na de stevige plussen op donderdag.

De olieprijzen gingen verder omlaag doordat er steeds meer olietankers door de Straat van Hormuz varen. Amerikaanse olie zakte tot onder 70 dollar per vat. Oliemaatschappijen als ExxonMobil, Chevron en ConocoPhillips werden tot 0,7 procent lager gezet.

Farmaceuten en medische bedrijven waren daarentegen in trek bij beleggers in New York. Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, AbbVie en Eli Lilly wonnen tot 7 procent. De afgelopen tijd zijn er meerdere grote overnamedeals in de farmasector geweest.

Verder kwam er ook nog nieuws over het Amerikaanse consumentenvertrouwen. Dat is in juni verbeterd nadat het vertrouwen in mei nog naar het laagste niveau ooit zakte door zorgen over de hoge inflatie bij huishoudens. Een hoge inflatie schaadt de koopkracht van consumenten.

Bij een steekpartij bij de Kralingse Plas in Rotterdam is vrijdagavond een man zwaargewond geraakt. De steekpartij zou zijn gebeurd na een ruzie. De politie heeft een verdachte aangehouden.

Team Principal James Vowles has detailed when Williams will be introducing upgrades this season as the team continues to struggle to reach the top of the midfield fight.

Noel Leon took his maiden Formula 2 pole position in Spielberg, beating Alexander Dunne and his Campos Racing team mate Nikola Tsolov to top spot on Friday.

F3 driver Hiyu Yamakoshi claimed a surprise pole position at the Red Bull Ring.

Mercedes are braced for McLaren, Red Bull and Ferrari to all potentially pose a threat as the Austrian Grand Prix weekend develops, despite their pace-setting start to the event with Kimi Antonelli on Friday.

Why Brussels needs to pick up the pace.

Vandaag zingen we het Wilhelmus net ietsje harder (doen we elke ochtend voor het schijten) want onze favoriete Prinses der Nederlanden alsook van Oranje Nassau, Hare Koninklijke Hoogheid ALEXIA is 21 jaar geworden. Betekent dus dat Alexia vanaf nu mag zuipen in Amerika, recht heeft 100 procent wettelijk minimumloon, mag gokken en zelfstandig een uitkering mag aanvragen. Dat laatste zal niet hoeven want een uitkering hebben papa Willie en zus Amaal al en bij acute geldnood kan ze desnoods Antoon ff aanschieten. Er zijn best wel wat dingetjes aan het Koningshuis waar we af en toe chagrijnig over zijn, maar op een of andere manier worden we nooit van Alexia. Al krijgt ze een toelage van 10 miljoen, al rolt ze in ieder kudtdorp waar ze handjes moet schudden de hele dag met haar ogen, al vlucht ze naar Canada Griekenland als heel Nederland op de IC ligt, al duikt ze bij elke irritante zanger in de auto, wij klagen niet. Uiteraard bedoelen we daarmee niet te zeggen dat Alexia 'de lekkerste' prinses is. Nee, dat bedoelde Sander Schimmelpenninck. Toen ze 15 was. #NeverForget.

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For more than three years now, we've been hearing from AI execs who insist that the government regulate their industries … until there's a chance such oversight could hurt business. OpenAI and Anthropic have led the way with the latter's CEO, Dario Amodei, calling for "binding regulations" in June 2026, only to push back when his latest models were suspended. Now Google, which has also called for AI regulation, would like to clarify its request for government intervention and ask for a "middle way" that's largely favorable to its interests. "The debate over AI governance is stuck in a false choice between over-regulation and no regulation," said Google president Kent Walker in a blog post. "There is a middle way: A pragmatic, evidence-based approach that recognizes the unique challenges and opportunities of both frontier AI and widely-deployed AI applications." Walker does not explicitly define "over-regulation," but presumably we're talking about the recent ban on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5. In Google's 21-page policy paper "A Pragmatic Approach to AI Governance in America" [PDF], the company argues, "There is a middle path that would balance market-driven innovation and independent oversight: a federally overseen frontier AI regulatory organization (FARO)." The FARO would be modeled after other notionally independent, industry-funded organizations like the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and the American Medical Association, each of which is overseen by some government commission or agency. The conceit of a middle path is difficult to reconcile with the past decade of dire warnings about AI from technology leaders. If AI is indeed an existential threat with the capability to do harm, one might expect it to be regulated like lead or asbestos. Yet here's Google arguing, "AI platforms should be required to take reasonable measures to feature persistent disclaimers, filter out sexually explicit or romantic content, avoid claims the model is a person (and regularly point out that it’s not), and not promote emotional dependency." We've seen how well this has worked out on the internet, where Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has immunized platforms that take performative safety measures: we wanted some measure of free speech, but we also got no-fault misinformation and social media incitement as part of the package. The middle road for AI governance is already here: some acceptable level of chatbot suicide promotion, non-consensual nudification images, copyright surrender, model bias, indemnified errors, and guidance toward harms. Hey, we tried. It's not communities banning datacenters, but communities negotiating terms. "The question is not datacenters or no datacenters, but how to build datacenters the right way, responsibly and in partnership with communities," Google's paper states. But already for many communities, it's not a question but an imperative. If there's one thing that unites the political spectrum at the moment, it's opposition to datacenters. And this middle of the road approach looks more like "just let us have our way" with regard to copyright. "Using publicly available web data for training models is a transformative, non-expressive use – like an art student taking inspiration from walking through a gallery – that should remain protected under fair use in the U.S. and text-and-data-mining exceptions abroad," Google's paper muses. The courts are still considering claims about AI copyright abuse. But as analogies go, AI for Google is more like an art student who controls the tourist referral market capturing the entirety of the Louvre's imagery and then selling access to those images – fair, profitable use! – and laundered variations in a way that discourages tourists from visiting the actual Louvre. And then, noting all the creative types who no longer get hired because AI sells their talent on tap, the art student throws in with a non-profit offering incentives to companies for job retraining programs. Google is asking for a middle path, but one need only look at the growth in AI lobbying over the past few years – up 340 percent since 2023 – to understand that the AI industry is paying to pave this middle path in a favorable direction. ®